Clif Flynt is a professional programmer and has been a Tcl advocate since 1994. He has developed Tcl applications for the e-commerce, factory control, computer-based education, network analysis, games, firewall configuration, systems administration, and more. He has taught Tcl/Tk seminars in colleges and corporations around the world and writes regularly on Tcl/Tk for the developer community.

"The best computer programmers are astonishingly more productive than average. One reason is that they use good tools, and they use them well. Clif Flynt's Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide, Second Edition helps you improve your effectiveness as a developer in both of these ways. Tcl is a software language with a great return on investment—it achieves portable, powerful, economical results with great economy. Just a few lines of Tcl are enough to create applications that are both interesting and useful. Clif draws on his deep experience as a front-line developer to help you get the most out of Tcl. He writes clearly, and has organized his book with instructive examples that teach the essentials of Tcl. He covers the right material too: Tcl/Tk packs in not just such long-standing Tcl strengths such as its easy networking and graphical user interface, but also the latest breakthroughs with internationalization, widget upgrades, and StarPacks. Want to take your programming to the next level? Get Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide, Second Edition." —Cameron Laird is vice president of Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net), where he specializes in Rapid Enterprise Integration with Tcl and related tools. His frequent publications on information technology include the popular "Regular Expressions" column (http://regularexpressions.com)

• 1. Tcl/Tk Features2. The Mechanics of Using the Tcl and Tk Interpreters3. Introduction to the Tcl Language4. File System, Disk I/O and Sockets5. Using Strings and Lists6. Basic list, array and dict7. Advanced List, array and dict8. Procedure Techniques9. Namespaces10. Basic TclOO11. Advanced TclOO12. Packages and modules13. Introduction to Tk Graphics14. Overview of the canvas Widget15. The text widget and htmllib16. Themed Widgets17. Tk Megawidgets18. Writing a Tcl Extension19. Extensions and Packages20. Programming Tools21. Debugging and Optimization techniques22. Tips and Techniques

Clif Flynt is a professional programmer and has been a Tcl advocate since 1994. He has developed Tcl applications for the e-commerce, factory control, computer-based education, network analysis, games, firewall configuration, systems administration, and more. He has taught Tcl/Tk seminars in colleges and corporations around the world and writes regularly on Tcl/Tk for the developer community.

"The best computer programmers are astonishingly more productive than average. One reason is that they use good tools, and they use them well. Clif Flynt's Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide, Second Edition helps you improve your effectiveness as a developer in both of these ways. Tcl is a software language with a great return on investment—it achieves portable, powerful, economical results with great economy. Just a few lines of Tcl are enough to create applications that are both interesting and useful. Clif draws on his deep experience as a front-line developer to help you get the most out of Tcl. He writes clearly, and has organized his book with instructive examples that teach the essentials of Tcl. He covers the right material too: Tcl/Tk packs in not just such long-standing Tcl strengths such as its easy networking and graphical user interface, but also the latest breakthroughs with internationalization, widget upgrades, and StarPacks. Want to take your programming to the next level? Get Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide, Second Edition." —Cameron Laird is vice president of Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net), where he specializes in Rapid Enterprise Integration with Tcl and related tools. His frequent publications on information technology include the popular "Regular Expressions" column (http://regularexpressions.com)

• 1. Tcl/Tk Features2. The Mechanics of Using the Tcl and Tk Interpreters3. Introduction to the Tcl Language4. File System, Disk I/O and Sockets5. Using Strings and Lists6. Basic list, array and dict7. Advanced List, array and dict8. Procedure Techniques9. Namespaces10. Basic TclOO11. Advanced TclOO12. Packages and modules13. Introduction to Tk Graphics14. Overview of the canvas Widget15. The text widget and htmllib16. Themed Widgets17. Tk Megawidgets18. Writing a Tcl Extension19. Extensions and Packages20. Programming Tools21. Debugging and Optimization techniques22. Tips and Techniques